Brag - Spring2023
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Words from the<br />
President<br />
I often remind myself that saints are indeed our living friends in prayer life of<br />
our College. Jesuit Spirituality emphasizes friendship with the Lord as sacred<br />
relationship that is worth seeking. This is very true of Edmund Campion’s friendship<br />
with the Lord, and whose name we choose for our College thanks to his scholarship<br />
and sanctity within our Mission. I ponder what possible views he has of us as the<br />
Campion community serving higher education in Saskatchewan. I thank God for his<br />
friendship marked in his intercessions for us. That level of holy engagement is very<br />
real for those who pray to the Lord in the friendship of his saints.<br />
This academic year has been a special one of grace and I could sense it through the<br />
practice of faith in our broken world of insecurities, places of war, and high costs<br />
of living, to name a few. We held rather well against the wave of the pandemic, the<br />
concern of student enrollment, mental anxieties, and the financial restraints that<br />
are upon us. Our staff and faculty along with our supporters have understood the<br />
parameter of commitment to our students, and each one at Campion has strived to<br />
give the best possible service to our enrolled students. We are living the faith.<br />
The Ignatian spirituality will aid us in the coming academic year to start a process<br />
of reflection, based on the Examen prayer, on how we are living and growing with<br />
our College Mission. We are joining other Jesuit Colleges and Universities in our<br />
global network in this endeavour, and we at Campion are preparing ourselves for<br />
this process.<br />
Campion College stands firmly for the Jesuit ideals of trust and service. Our inspirational<br />
founder in his <strong>Brag</strong>, his final speech, reminds us, “The expense is reckoned,<br />
the enterprise is begun; it is of God, it cannot be withstood. So the faith was planted;<br />
so it must be restored.” Each of these Campion’s words touches our reality at the<br />
College: a people of faith, a community of sacrifice, and God’s involvement which we<br />
discern by the riches of the Ignatian spirituality. We are a community that continues<br />
to transform others into hearts of generosity in the pathway of education. I like the<br />
symbol of our College, the winding path in a Cross-shape indicating the “way” of the<br />
Cross; and the crest of our College, affirming the divine presence, as oval-looking<br />
Eucharist just above the motto Sapientia Regina. We understand that wisdom<br />
has a path to enlighten our students as we walk with them, and we extend hearty<br />
congratulations to our graduates this year. It was a great privilege having them.<br />
Please keep us in your prayers.<br />
TABLE OF<br />
CONTENTS<br />
President’s Message 3<br />
Spring Grads 4<br />
Grad Stories 6<br />
St. Edmund Campion Medal 7<br />
New Student 8<br />
The Plague Comes to Campion 10<br />
Journey to Cuernavaca 12<br />
Rapid Test Kit Distribution 14<br />
Champions of Change 15<br />
Rising Politician 16<br />
Student Activities 17<br />
Nash Lecture 18<br />
Alumni of Distinction 20<br />
<strong>Brag</strong>-a-Bits24<br />
Alumni in Business 25<br />
Editor:<br />
Krista Calfat<br />
Photography:<br />
Cover: Trevor Hopkin<br />
Kelly Bourke<br />
Krista Calfat<br />
Brandi Klein<br />
Contributors:<br />
Kelly Bourke<br />
Krista Calfat<br />
Dr. Allison Fizzard<br />
Dr. Dawn Flood<br />
Holly Gustafson<br />
Bronwyn Heerspink<br />
Fr. Sami Helewa, SJ<br />
Shae Sackman<br />
Raiha Shareef<br />
Katelyn Wood<br />
Canada Post<br />
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Previous Donors List 26<br />
Environmental Talk<br />
and Scholarship 28<br />
Mission Priority Examen 30<br />
Faculty Notes 31<br />
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